All sound cards require some sort of drivers to function, right? Wrong! You can actually build your own sound card from scratch, although it won’t on par (far from it) compared to those magical Sound Blasters. At its heart remains a 16-bit Stereo Digital-to-Analog Converter, and you do need steady hands to get the soldering part done correctly. It shouldn’t take more than a few hours to cobble one together, and it will be driverless just like many M-Audio and Griffin products out there, working in both Windows XP and Vista environments just fine. It ain’t pretty to look at, but at least it works!
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